Drive-By Dining: Rating L.A. Food-Truck Eats

We take to the streets of L.A. in search of mobile sustenance.

Los Angeles is a city in transit, populated by movers, shakers, vagrants, migrants, chauffeurs, and the chauffeured. So it’s fitting that L.A.’s fashionable food scene should be mobile, too. From lengua tacos just like your abuelita used to make to Asian fusion from celebrity chefs, the food-truck craze is strong, thanks to the grub and the thrill of the chase: Social-media sites like Twitter give foodies a lock on the trucks’ ever-shifting locations. For those who equate street food with laxatives, recent enforcement by city fathers means these four-wheeled restaurants are now held to the same health standards as stationary ones. Now that they are shedding their roach-coach status, food trucks are en route to being as much a fixture of L.A. life as palm trees, traffic, and broken dreams. Here are seven of the city’s finest.